Editing Akismet stuff in dashboard (9 posts)

But I want to change what it tells me in the dashboard - it's all very well knowing how many chunks of spam it's caught since I installed it but what I really want to know is how many chunks it has caught since I deleted the last lot.

I've identified the code in akismet.php that needs changing but I don't know what to change it to!

It helps to know what the error is that is actually breaking the site. :)

Note I made only a small change to the akismet_stats() function in the plugin file and tested it before posting the function. Here's the modded version of akismet.php, in full, which I (now) have running on two WP 2.0 sites: